Israeli soldier and woman stabbed to death by Palestinians

An Israeli soldier and a woman were stabbed to death by Palestinians in Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank on Monday, extending a surge in violence fuelled by strife over access to Jerusalem’s holiest site. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to crush “terror being directed at all parts of the country” - remarks appearing to clash with Israeli security chiefs’ assertions that the tumult did not yet spell a new Intifada, or Palestinian revolt. Police identified the suspected assailant, who was arrested, as a West Bank resident who was in Israel illegally and had no criminal record there.

I can promise you one thing - they (terrorists) will not succeed. We will continue to fight terror … and we will defeat it together.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister

Hours later, a Palestinian stormed out of a car to stab an Israeli woman to death and wound two other people outside the Jewish settlement of Alon Shvut in the West Bank, police said. The militant group Islamic Jihad claimed him as one of its own. Tension has risen anew over Israeli-controlled access to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest site, where biblical Jewish temples once stood.

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